Pappas, Cox, Kimpel, Dodd & Levine, P.C. provides legal advice and strategies to families seeking to protect valuable family assets against the high cost of long term care. We use a variety of legal techniques and legal instruments to preserve assets and income for the benefit of the spouse who remains in the community and ultimately for the benefit of other family members, including children and grandchildren.

If there is already a family member in nursing home, or about to enter a nursing home or requires home care services, we provide legal advice to the family on how to qualify that family member for Medicaid benefits to pay for all or a portion of his or her cost of care.

We counsel parents of children with disabilities on how to create an estate plan that will provide special comforts to their disabled children without impairing the receipt of valuable government benefits.

Through the use of special trusts, Pappas, Cox, Kimpel, Dodd & Levine, P.C. is able to protect the government benefits of a disabled individual in cases where that individual may become entitled to an inheritance or life insurance proceeds.